"Without conscious breathing,
it's drama.
With conscious breathing,
it becomes Dharma."
- coach ilg
"Without conscious breathing,
it's drama.
With conscious breathing,
it becomes Dharma."
- coach ilg
Thanksgiving
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"Thanksgiving is, after all, a verb."
- Cameron
Yesterday, i sent out a SUNRIDER Missive for the Coach Ilg Downline. These Missives include important information about how to lose bodyfat, maintain cell purity, and offer inspiring reports from people all across the world that use SUNRIDER Herbs. Don't miss the VERY FIRST STEP of regenerative, whole-food Nutrition; join SUNRIDER today and receive my complimentary Guidance for budgeting and using your own cellular purity journey! Vibrate HIGH! Vibrate with the "Secret Herbs of WF since 1983"...superb holiday gift giving that puts money right back into your pocket while enhancing and empowering the health of those you love!
Congratulations to:
Scott Sorensen who joined the Coach Ilg SUNRIDER Downline yesterday!
buckle up Scott, and get ready to put the "soar" into Sorensen!
Scott is a long-time fan of WF and lives in Taylorsville, Utah
Pain is
weakness leaving our bodies, sure.
Pain is
also intensity strengthening our weaknesses.
Pain is
karma spin balancing our granthis.
Seek pain for spiritual sauca, however,
do not Attach to it. the ignorant are
often more comfortable in conscious suffering
than in doing the work of spiritual evolution.
Remember continuously that our nature is fluid,
not solid.
We are more ether than matter.
Develop and use the Pranic locks so our Inner Being
can Dance in the Way of an Eagles flight...far above
the drama of the Outer World.
Steadfastly, oh Precious Warrior, devote thyself to difficulty
and only that way shall you be freed from it.
- coach ilg
photo;
barbed wire coated in ice from a nearby stream.
we are made of fluid,
yet our samskara's make rigid our body, mind, and spirit.
photo by ilg
“When considering the cleanliness and purity of the body, it is always emphasized that the system of yoga views the body as a vehicle meant to nurture and aid the development of our spiritual beings. The body is affectionately maintained as the keeper of the spirit, a means to an end, but not an end itself.”
Note that without lifting ONE BARBELL or doing ONE CARDIO workout, New Student Elizabeth has received the WF Transmission as demonstrated through her loss of Bodyfat (spiritual surrender to the Teacher), Dream visitation, and Mantra empowerment.
WF Chi Hit from the past...steve ilg on the never-repeated "Balloon Saloon Traverse,"
Pagosa Springs, Colorado. circa 1990. i called it the Balloon Saloon because the route was this excruciatingly long traverse along a historic wall of an old saloon in downtown Pagosa Springs, and you had to be as light as a balloon to make it. so much as breathe too heavily, and you'd be off. and i fell off this thing a hundred times or more over the course of an entire summer. i had to get my bodyfat to 2% before i was successful on this route and you can see how lean i was! it's always a matter of 'how bad do you want it?' photo by Jennifer Heightley.
Today i reGift to my Precious Sangha of Multi-Disciplined Yoga,
just a smidgen of your Metta...
Dharma Blessings upon your Awareness, Sweat, and Stillness this week,
el coache
ps; just wait till you read about what i pulled off yesterday!
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Steve:
I just ordered your TBT book for a lifelong friend of mine. He is a warrior spirit who like you has suffered a back injury that has forced him to stop running. He's now switched mostly to bicycling. Over the last year I have shared with him insights into WF. Most importantly he has watched my own transformation as I've re-energized/re-integrated the 5 disciplines of WF and 4 lifestyle principles internally and they have been equally reflected outward. He is one of our friends that has to this point leaned a little too much to a one-dimensional approach to his fitness/life.
He is looking for the best path to improve the quality of his life. And TBT, I know from my own experience is that path.
If its not too much to ask please send him your thoughts inside the cover of the book & again I humbly thank you for the quality/color/fullness that WF has brought to my life.
Your Friend,
Rando
Thanks Coach ILG! You have no idea how many times your command sent my ass into gear the last 600 days! Let's stay the course...as we MUST!
rj
Pranic Junkie is amazing.
Thank You for sharing! Already through the book round #1. Meditate on it? I can make up many ways to carry out that assignment!
- JB
hey coach,
it was good to get back into your class again recently...i will be in colorado until september, but i will definitely be in again soon (and hopefully more regularly.) i had practically forgotten what a joyous and challenging experience it is!
thanks again for your inspiration...namaste.
andrew mount
Steve,
Thanks for 'Total Body Transformation'. I have a copy (hardcover) that I purchased when
it came out and is one of a few books I still carry around with me. I
use it as a reference book. This effort is what I have come to expect
from your practice. Know that I consider
you one of the best teachers out there. I have been in the business
for twenty-five years and prior to that in the medical field as a PT.
I will be 56 next month and my goal is to be as fit as you (or as
close as I can) by the time I am 60. Your work is inspiring and I
don't know any better compliment than that. Thanks again for your kindness.
Steve
Hey Steve,
My buddies and I are registered for Mt Taylor 2009. We have been big fan of yours.
We all have your book, which we are going to follow for our odyssey, and we wanted to know if there are any specific training programs for Mt Taylor we could follow.
Thanks
Bill Garrels
Steve:
It's my pleasure & I treasure the opportunities to support your efforts.
For over the years those efforts have added to the quality of my life in more ways than I'll ever be able to express.
Talk to you soon.
RanDo
Today i reGift to my Precious Sangha of Multi-Disciplined Yoga,
just a smidgen of your Metta...
Dharma Blessings upon your Awareness, Sweat, and Stillness this week,
el coache
ps; just wait till you read about what i pulled off yesterday!
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El Coache,
I don't know what I'm going to do without your yoga classes though... you have a knack for motivating on such a deeper level. You are an excellent yoga teacher, and you're the best teacher at the NAYC (but you probably already know that).
- K
pro cyclist
Steve:
I just ordered your TBT book for a lifelong friend of mine. He is a warrior spirit who like you has suffered a back injury that has forced him to stop running. He's now switched mostly to bicycling. Over the last year I have shared with him insights into WF. Most importantly he has watched my own transformation as I've re-energized/re-integrated the 5 disciplines of WF and 4 lifestyle principles internally and they have been equally reflected outward. He is one of our friends that has to this point leaned a little too much to a one-dimensional approach to his fitness/life.
He is looking for the best path to improve the quality of his life. And TBT, I know from my own experience is that path.
If its not too much to ask please send him your thoughts inside the cover of the book & again I humbly thank you for the quality/color/fullness that WF has brought to my life.
Your Friend,
Rando
Thanks Coach ILG! You have no idea how many times your command sent my ass into gear the last 600 days! Let's stay the course...as we MUST!
rj
Pranic Junkie is amazing.
Thank You for sharing! Already through the book round #1. Meditate on it? I can make up many ways to carry out that assignment!
- JB
hey coach,
it was good to get back into your class again recently...i will be in colorado until september, but i will definitely be in again soon (and hopefully more regularly.) i had practically forgotten what a joyous and challenging experience it is!
thanks again for your inspiration...namaste.
andrew mount
Steve,
Thanks for 'Total Body Transformation'. I have a copy (hardcover) that I purchased when
it came out and is one of a few books I still carry around with me. I
use it as a reference book. This effort is what I have come to expect
from your practice. Know that I consider
you one of the best teachers out there. I have been in the business
for twenty-five years and prior to that in the medical field as a PT.
I will be 56 next month and my goal is to be as fit as you (or as
close as I can) by the time I am 60. Your work is inspiring and I
don't know any better compliment than that. Thanks again for your kindness.
Steve
Hey Steve,
My buddies and I are registered for Mt Taylor 2009. We have been big fan of yours.
We all have your book, which we are going to follow for our odyssey, and we wanted to know if there are any specific training programs for Mt Taylor we could follow.
Thanks
Bill Garrels
Steve:
It's my pleasure & I treasure the opportunities to support your efforts.
For over the years those efforts have added to the quality of my life in more ways than I'll ever be able to express.
Talk to you soon.
RanDo
"...yogis that skip daily Pranayam for the sake of "Meditation"
run a very dangerous and real risk of imbalanced Neural, Nadic, and possibly Kundalini Awakening and many other physical, mental, and energetic dis-eases." - coach ilg
Pranayam concentration comes before meditation.
Pranayam is training for meditation.
remember the order of Practice Priorites straight from the Enlightened Ones:
1st and 2nd: Yama and NiYama (these are allWays works in progress!)
3rd: Asana to strengthen the Nadic System and concentration skills and breath/pranic empowerment
4th: Pranayam to deepen the Nadic and concentration Fitness and stoke the Kundala
5th: Pratyahara to establish a relationship with Sushumna Awareness and Chidakasha
6th: Dharana: sustained concentration
7th: Dhyana: meditation occurs only as a Training Effect from #6
8: Samadhi: Training effect from mastery of all the above.
yogis that skip Pranayam for the sake of "Meditation"
run a very dangerous and real risk of imbalanced Neural, Nadic, and possibly Kundalini Awakening and many other physical, mental, and energetic dis-eases.
get my Early Morning Ritual (EMR) DVD
establish abhyasa (steadfast practice) in using it; EVERY MORNING!
after 3 months of EMR abhyasa, contact me.
wise call.
however:
less classes,
more within
you have studied soooooooo much...
remember Jois's classic counsel:
1% Theory, 99% Practice.
your Nadic Fitness and Balance
and the Awakening of Sushumna
are NOT to be further delayed.
and they don't need 'classes' to be developed;
they require one thing:
DO NOT MISS THIS INCREDIBLE TEACHING COMPLETE WITH AN ENERGETIC AND PHYSICAL NUTRITIONAL RECIPE STRAIGHT FROM COACH!...only for DL SUBSCRIBERS!
Kendrick Mountain Duathlon
65.50 kilometers (52.25k bike + 13.25k peak run)
(40.7 miles =32.27 mile bike + 8 mile peak run)
read and keep this fantastic training route on today's DL!
FIRST TRACKS, BABY!!!
got 'em yesterday up Agassiz Peak!
"The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and presence, where you are a little open and able to connect with your heart essence. And five minutes of wakeful sitting practice is of far greater value than twenty minutes of dozing!"
- Sogyal Rinpoche
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topic includes;
SUNRIDER Herb intake,
MAP Amino Acid intake,
beginning yoga question,
purification of Word Choice,
and more...
With latisimus dorsi tendons once capable of 62 consecutive Pull Ups, i now spend countless hours in yoga postures attempting to undue the imbalance created by my Pull Up-specific strength from the 1980's when i was a sponsored climber. Always remember, the pursuit of Wholeness is far, far more difficult to attain than sport- or discipline-specificity. photo from TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATIONnote; photo may appear only for DL Subscribers
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Steve,
i just tried this
"Death by Pull-Ups" workout i got from {a professional fitness training company - name withheld to protect their idiocy}: With a continuously running clock do one pull-up the first minute, two pull-ups the second minute, three pull-ups the third minute... continuing as long as you are able.
The record is 27 rounds.
I got completed 6 rounds and crapped out in the 7th.
love,
Student H
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it's go(o)d to rock our boat of belief structures...how else are they tested and strengthened? no matter what or who we 'believe in'...that belief structure is gonna get SMASHED to DIVINE SMITHEREENS anyway upon our Bardo Entry...so, why not continually test and develop our sense of Truth through confrontations, not avoidance?
-coach ilg
photo by AZ Daily Sun
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